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The DiMartino / Osland Jazz Orchestra

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By The DiMartino / Osland Jazz Orchestra

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Real Life; Aim for the Heart; Niece Piece; Spring Is Here; My Secret Love; It Might as Well Be Spring; Tears in Her Eyes; A Night in Tunisia; Tu y Mi Cancion; Fantasia on an Ellington Theme; Pussy Cat Dues; Masaman; Trumpet Tune; I Was a Fool (to Let You Go); I'm Free

The DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra: Off The Charts

by Jim Santella
June 1, 2001

The contrast between the voices of Miles Osland and Vince DiMartino makes this edition of big band arrangements more adventuresome than most. Recorded at the University of Kentucky's Singletary Center a year ago, this is one brings out the best yet from Lexington's Arts capital. Osland “sings" through his horn with a blues-tinged expression that recalls ...

The DiMartino / Osland Jazz Orchestra: Off the Charts

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

Some things simply don’t compute. For example, big bands from Kentucky, of all places, aren’t supposed to sound nearly as sharp and sophisticated as this — but there’s no denying what one hears, and the aural evidence proves conclusively that the DiMartino / Osland Jazz Orchestra is one hip, pressure–cookin’ Jazz ensemble. This may have something ...

The DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orechestra: Off the Charts

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

Vince DiMartino is a graduate of the University of Kentucky's very fine jazz studies program headed by Miles Osland. He shares billing with Osland on this CD which has more than 75 minutes of outstanding, disciplined and exciting big band music. Although DiMartino's name is on the album with Osland's , the latter's influence is prevalent ...